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Dr. Julius Heydemann, 85, of Chicago, died March 11 at home. Dr. Heydemann, a radiologist, was born in Germany and attended medical school at the University of Berlin. He came to the United States in 1937 to study radiology in New York City. After coming to Chicago in the mid-1940s, Dr. Heydemann worked at several hospitals, including old St. Luke's Hospital on Michigan Avenue, St. Mary's Hospital in Kankakee and Ingalls Memorial Hospital in Harvey. During the 1950s, he was acting chairman of the Department of Radiology at the University of Illinois and taught there until 1993.

Dr. B. Jay Hill, 72, a radiologist, died Thursday in his Glen Ellyn home. Born in St. Paul, Neb., Dr. Hill retired in 1984 as chairman of the department of radiology at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn. Dr. Hill graduated from the University of Nebraska school of medicine and completed his residency at the University of Michigan. A World War II Navy veteran, Dr. Hill was a former chairman of the department of radiology at Mercy Hospital in Chicago and was a staff radiologist at Presbyterian St. Luke's Hospital in Chicago.

Mass for Dr. Michael Indovina, 85, a south suburban radiologist, will be said at 9:30 a.m. Monday in St. Joseph's Catholic Church, 179th Street and Dixie Highway, Homewood. Dr. Indovina died Saturday at his longtime place of employment, Ingalls Memorial Hospital,. A 1929 graduate of Loyola University's Stritch School of Medicine, Dr. Indovina directed Ingalls` radiology department from 1949 until he retired in 1972. Before 1949, he taught at Loyola and established the radiology-instruction program at Ingalls.

A custodian at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn found a white cooler containing an animal brain near a Dumpster behind the radiology department last week, police said. A physician on the hospital staff examined the brain and told police that it appeared to be the brain of a cow. The Cook County medical examiner's office confirmed that it was a non-human brain, police said.

Three doctors have been barred from working at an Atlanta hospital and fired from a radiology practice for making racist remarks that were caught on a hospital tape-recorder that they thought was shut off. The comments were recorded by a medical transcriber, Barbara Jewel Hopson, who sued the doctors, the Atlanta Medical Center, a radiology contractor and a transcription company. Hopson, who is black, alleged she was fired after she complained. Dr. John Bisese, Dr. Kenneth Brinn and a third doctor whose name was not released were fired by the radiology contractor.

Dr. Howard C. Burkhead, 82, a radiologist and former chairman of the department of radiology at Evanston Hospital, served as president of the Chicago Medical Society from 1974 to 1975. A resident of Evanston from 1950 to 1986, he had residences in recent years in Arcadia, Mich., and Holmes Beach, Fla. Dr. Burkhead suffered an aneurysm at home in Arcadia and died in a nearby facility Monday. "He was a warm-hearted guy and a terrific person," John Laing, a friend, said.

Narciso L. Lobo studied medicine in his native Philippines and practiced radiology in Chicago and at small hospitals throughout the U.S. over a 30-year career. Dr. Lobo, 66, died Monday, Jan. 22, in Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge of complications from cancer, said his daughter Maria Corey. He had been diagnosed with colorectal cancer in August 2005, she said. Dr. Lobo was on the radiology staff at Rush North Shore Medical Center in Skokie from the late 1970s until the early 1990s.

The son of a physician, Dr. Charles F. Whitney Jr. once considered becoming a surgeon before embarking on a long career in radiology. According to family members, the Vermont native had a change of heart after serving as an Army medical officer near the bloody beaches of Normandy on D-Day, as well as on many battlefields across Europe, during World War II. "He saw and experienced a lot during the war, so when he came home he needed to...

Dr. Morrie Kricun, a University of Pennsylvania radiology professor who co-wrote an illustrated textbook a few years ago called "Imaging the Pelvis," has put together a new illustrated book, this time featuring Elvis Presley. Kricun, in Chicago recently to lecture at an international radiology meeting, raised some eyebrows among colleagues as he showed off his coffee-table-size effort, "Elvis 1956 Reflections." After his pelvis textbook was published, Kricun got the idea for an Elvis book.